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Measuring the New World

Name: Measuring the New World
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 04549021
Price: 39.59 EUR
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Author: Neil Safier
ISBN: 9780226733623

Enlightenment Science and South America

Neil Safier

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Inglese

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Codice Libristo: 04549021

Casa editrice The University of Chicago Press, giugno 2012

Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy... Descrizione completa

Codice Libristo: 04549021

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Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish-American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission's participants referred to the transfer of scientific knowledge from Europe to the Andes as a "sacred fire" passing mysteriously through European astronomical instruments to observers in South America. By taking an innovative interdisciplinary look at the traces of this expedition, "Measuring the New World" examines the transatlantic flow of knowledge from West to East. Through ephemeral monuments and geographical maps, this book explores how the social and cultural worlds of South America contributed to the production of European scientific knowledge during the Enlightenment. Neil Safier uses the notebooks of traveling philosophers, as well as specimens from the expedition, to place this particular scientific endeavor in the larger context of early modern print culture and the emerging intellectual category of scientist as author.